Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003
…Q: But it wouldn’t be disappointing, would it, if there were no weapons there?
MR. FLEISCHER: We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Tag: 2003
Water, Water… Where?
Since my last post on the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, three more lives have been lost. One a Dane killed by “friendly fire,” one of ours to hostile fire, and yet another American soldier to heat stroke.…
Immaculate Deception
There’s one problem with criticisms of George W. Bush. He’s perfect.
At least, that’s what Republican leaders seem to claim. Forget malfeasance — any time the Bush administration is accused of being sloppy, or even if a hint of a mistake somehow slips into the mainstream media, their publicity machine moves to crush the very notion that President Bush could be anything other than flawless. After all — we are at WAR, and he is our PRESIDENT, and anything that could be even REMOTELY CONSTRUED as UNDERMINING him borders on the TREASONOUS!…
And every one counts to someone…
Interesting subtotals from Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
Total US and UK deaths in the database: 313 (267 US, 46 UK)
They provide details, so that they can be cross-checked. If you go to the details page, you can filter on various fields. I noticed a lot of “accidents,” so I did a little filtering. Unfortunately, it’ll only filter on one field at a time (in Opera at least), so I had to count the US/UK in these categories by hand.…
Fair and Balanced Friday
Well, the weather is “fair” for this time of year, not as hot as it could be, and we’re balanced on the middle of the month (the Ides of August, as it were…)
Just adding my $.02 to the blogisphere :-)
Meanwhile, some tips on dealing with blackouts, found on FauxNews:
Say again?
From Remarks by the President, July 14, 2003
"And we gave him [Saddam Hussein] a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in."
Uuummmm, if he didn’t let inspectors in, then why this:…
Can’t Stand the Boors?
(In response to "HOW LOW CAN THE WASHINGTON POST GO?" on MediaWhoresOnline, formerly at mediawhoresonline.com)
OK, let me preface this by saying that I grew up and still live in the inland Southern California desert. Aside from about a year in the early 80s, I’ve lived here all my life. If you want to see what we’re dealing with here, check out the NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ZONE FORECAST FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA (scroll down to the Inland Empire).…
Buy Tom’s Book
Since it’s a tradition for me to post twice in a row… ;-)
Tom Tomorrow is one of the best progressive bloggers and cartoonists out there. One of his ‘toons inspired the subtitle of this very blog. And his new book is out. He could use the support — cartooning is his livelihood. His cartoons are always either hilarious or thought-provoking, and frequently both.
Tom’s pushing his book very aggressively on his site — and he’s not usually one for “crass commercialism” (in spite of a link with the same name on the border of his site :-) ) himself.
Follow one of the many links on his site to Powell’s or Amazon.…
The Memory Hole Is Clogged
Well, well, well. Our Dear Leader is getting desperate, isn’t he? President Bush — the employer of more spin doctors than Fox, Microsoft, and Disney combined — actually had the nerve to accuse his opponents of being “revisionist historians.” Meanwhile, Generalissimo Rove has mobilized the spin doctors and the attack pundits to revise history as quickly and completely as possible.
Translation: The memory hole is clogged, and no amount of spin is clearing out the mess.…
Starting over, again
Yet another code update. Hopefully, I’ll get back to posting content sometime soon :-).
(by Morgan, 06 Aug 2003 12:06 PM)…